Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Bolivia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Bronski Beat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gabor Szabo,
The Fuzztones,
Yusef Lateef,
Bobbi Humphrey,
June of 44,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Harmonia,
Delta 5,
Masters at Work,
Godley & Creme,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Wings,
Bobby Womack,
Crispian St. Peters,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
10cc,
Livin' Joy,
Crooked Eye,
Soft Machine,
Pagans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Accadde A,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alton Ellis,
The Fire Engines,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Deepchord,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Audionom,
Albert Ayler,
Crash Course in Science,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The United States of America,
Nik Kershaw,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ponytail,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bang On A Can,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Monochrome Set,
Patti Smith,
Amazonics,
JFA,
Outsiders,
The Doors,
The Victims,
8 Eyed Spy,
Agitation Free,
The Neon Judgement,
The Associates,
Metal Thangz,
Nils Olav,
The Vogues,
Lower 48,
Minnie Riperton,
Q65,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Unrelated Segments,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.